I enjoy reading, writing and
speaking
Write a job description for the
Stone Age. What type of
person would you need to
hunt or gather food?
Write a newspaper story, with
a headline, for the discovery of
fire – how did it change how
people lived?
3 points
I enjoy thinking- working with
numbers and being scientific
I enjoy painting, drawing and
visualising
I enjoy being active and doing
hands- on activities
3 points
Ug is the champion mammoth hunter in Mud village. On week 1
he catches 1 mammoth, on week 2 he catches 2. Each week he
catches double the number he caught in the week before.
Pog tries to beat Ug. He catches 15 mammoths every week.
By the end of week 10, who will have caught the most
mammoths?
When will Ug overtake Pog’s score? How many mammoths
would Pog need to catch every week to beat Ug after ten weeks?
Challenge: How many would he need to catch to beat Ug after 16
weeks
3 points
Draw and colour a scene of
Make up your own story, it can
Stonehenge at sunset.
be about anything you like but
tell it through cave art pictures!
Research and create a fact file for
one of the following Pre‐Historic
beasts: woolly mammoth, woolly
rhino, sabre‐toothed tiger,
glyptodon.
Create maths word problems
using rocks and soils as the
context. For example: There
were 58 rocks in the quarry. ½ of
these were taken away. How
many were left? Make sure you
include an answer key!
Write a movie review about the
Croods. What did you like best?
What did you like the least?
What was the message of the
story? Summarise the plot or
make a story graph to show how
exciting it was.
2 points
Test soil quality by planting beans
in different containers filled with
water/ newspaper, compost,
sand, clay and different mixtures
of all 4. Observe the different
growth patterns. Which soil is
best for growing beans?
2 points
4 points
3 points
Find a rock and paint it to turn it
into a piece of art.
Find some pictures of fossils –
draw, paint or collage a picture of
what you think the plant/animal
looked like when it was alive.
1 point
2 point
1 point
2 points
Stone Age people could only
Create a Stone Age settlement Go for a walk up the Clent Hills
Create an outfit that could have
eat food that had been caught or stone circle. You could use
and visit the four stones. You
been worn in the Stone Age using
or collected. Write your own
items you find outside, a
could write a short diary entry,
recycled materials. Make sure
recipe for a Stone
program on your computer or
track your walk using GPS or
you can put it on over your
Age dinner – you could bake it paper maché. Include some
include some photos. What can
uniform so you can show your
at home and take some
photos in your learning log.
you find out about the four
classmates how it looks.
photos.
stones? Are the prehistoric or are
2 points they more modern?
3 points
3 points
Elm Class Rocks – Spring Term 1 - 2015
3 points